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very promising! but how can you install it on a phone where pmos already runs? couldn't find any instructions
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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I was always wishing the BlackBerry Classic would run the same OS, but FOSS and up-to-date and based on Linux.
The Classic will likely never come back (has not even been rooted yet), but it's nice seeing an OS like that.
Hoping for tight XMPP integration into the hub and something like the BlachBerry Classic hardware-wise. With Mainline Kernel, USB-C and 5G. Ready for the next decade.
That would be my dream.
We really should have more options than cell phone towers built into these phones anymore. LoRA with reticulum should be part of these.
I wonder what the battery life is like.
OnePlus 6 validated at 60 FPS. Any PostmarketOS device with mainline Linux or Libhybris should work. Snapdragon 845/855 devices with mature kernel support are prime targets. Device porting contributions welcome.
Looks interesting. I'm very interested in seeing where this goes.
This is exciting. I've never used a BlackBerry, but the video looks really neat.
This sounds like a cool project. Now I need someone to remake my Blackberry 8830 with modern hardware
Wow, yeah I also haven't heard of that one and I check in on mobile Linux projects pretty often.
Snickers
Long lasting energy from peanuts?
Nah, Marathon turned into Snickers in 1990.
I did not expect to learn this fact from a phone OS thread. Thanks! :D
Why can't desktop Linux be made to run on a phone?
Because the hardware and drivers are proprietary and change every 2 years, which is too fast to keep up with reverse engineering them.
With postmarketos you can run gnome desktop or gnome mobile.
And hate yourself 👍
gnome mobile is quite good. I like it better than what ubuntu touch uses, Lomiri.
It can, but you'd need to have pretty thin fingers to use the GUI. Or carry a touchpad with you all the time.
Or a stylus.
A battery powered stylus with a pointing stick on the end and a few buttons along the body would be neat.
loving the logo
So is Android, but people like to get bent all out of shape when you mention it
Hmmm I wonder why people would get upset about acting like one of the largest surveillance companies in existence and hobbiest devices designed to evade surveillance are essentially the same?
Look, there's another one!
People are getting "bent all out of shape" because you're in a Linux phone thread and announcing AksHuaLLy aNDrOid is LInuX.
Do you think that people are suddenly going to be happy with the current state of Android if you repeat that it's Linux based enough times?
See, just like that!
Yeah technically, and so is ChromeOS, but that's not really what people mean when they say Linux. It's not the Linux kernel specifically that they want, it's usually the freedom and openness.
Oh, so you mean GNU/Linux.
Alpine Linux ticks most of the boxes people want and I don't think that has any gnu tools